# What's the maximum number of categories we can have?

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**Category:** Development\
**Tags:** rest-api\
**Created:** [2017 年2 月 7 日 00:08 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/whats-the-maximum-number-of-categories-we-can-have/57022 "2017-02-07T00:08:48Z")\
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I’m considering using Discourse as the backend for my website and app, but I haven’t seen any documentation on its scaling limits.

What’s the maximum number of categories we can have? Is it 1000? 10,000? 100,000?

I plan to heavily use the API and create a custom frontend for both web and mobile. Part of this is programmatically creating a new Category whenever a user wants to. So it’s more of a backend systems question than the UI.

For example, will the /categories.json endpoint scale? It doesn’t seem paginated.

Thanks!

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